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Men nab bids in IFC rush
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Students,staff trained in suicide prevention
WE’RE FLIPPING OUT
A new ban on pledge term eliminated probationary membership periods
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For two nights, men roamed in and out of fraternities sporting coats and ties. Now, many of those men have accepted bids, and in doing so became full-fledged fraternity members. This marks a shift from past Interfraternity Council recruitment seasons, when new members completed pledge terms, or probationary periods, before being officially inducted into a house. Though the IFC had not tabulated final numbers by Sunday night and president Wil Chockley ’15 could not provide an estimate, data from SEE RUSH PAGE 5
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“How have you been feeling lately?” reads a question in green italicized font. “Feeling empty, hopeless,” reads one answer choice, indicating depression. “Troubled by traumatic events,” reads another, indicating posttraumatic stress. The question is the entry point into an anonymous online mental health screening, part of a new suicide prevention website launched by Dartmouth’s counseling center last week that provides crisis intervention resources and wellness tips. The website also describes the recently implemented Campus Connect program, which trains students and campus personnel to recognize suicide warning signs in others. Arlene Velez-Galan, a staff counselor who spearheaded Campus Connect at the College, said plans began 10 months ago. Since then, more than 300 students, faculty and staff have been trained. First developed at Syracuse University and since implemented on about 75 campuses, Campus Connect targets “gatekeepers,” or community members who have direct contact with students.
At “Fallapalooza,” students bounced on trampolines as groups performed.
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Emmet Gowin’s black and white landscapes — photos of wheat fields, strip mines and nuclear testing sites in places ranging from Japan to the Czech Republic — tell stories of man’s impact on land, capturing the precarious balance between beauty and destruction. The fall’s first Montgomery Fellow, Gowin arrives Oct. 5 for a weeklong residency, during which he will speak about his work and meet
with photography classes and other small groups of students. Gowin, a recipient of a Guggenheim and National Endowment of the Arts Fellowships, was selected for his work in portrait photography and aerial landscapes, said program director Christianne Wohlforth . While there are no specific qualifications, Gowin’s selection was part of a thematic focus on the arts. Five of seven fellows hosted in the past year were SEE FELLOWS PAGE 5
Next weekend, around 30 students in teams of three or four will embark on the Fifty, a 53.6-mile hike from campus to Mount Moosilauke’s summit. Hike organizers said the trip usually takes about 30 hours, and hikers are supported by five different stations. This fall, 75 people applied to hike and more than 130 applied to support. This grueling hike is one of many activities organized by the Dartmouth Outing Club, the nation’s oldest and largest collegiate outing club, which boasts more than
1,500 members. Among freshmen, interest in the DOC soared this fall, DOC president Hunter van Adelsberg ’15 said. Though he could not provide exact numbers, he said around 500 registered, close to a record high. The DOC encompasses Ledyard and 11 other clubs. Van Adelsberg said the club’s large membership is partially due to Dartmouth’s self-selecting student body, adding that many students are attracted to the College’s location and its proximity to nature. While many students returned home, went to a local beach or stayed on campus
last spring break, Kristen Chalmers ’17 paddled alongside dolphins in the Florida Everglades with members of the Ledyard Canoe Club. “I wanted to take advantage of the great location Hanover was in and try new outdoor activities like whitewater kayaking that I never tried before college,” Chalmers said of her decision to join the DOC. Although DOC vice president Caroline Resor ’17 grew up in a Maryland suburb where she did not do many outdoor activities, she discovered a love for hiking when visiting her family in SEE TRIPS PAGE 2
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LOCAL NEWS
New Hampshire issued a $1 million grant to put toward repairing a Kennedy Pond dam, and the town is anticipating a $1.5 million bond to pass in November, which would bring Windsor’s repair funds to $2.5 million, the Valley News reported. Built in the 1830s, the dam requires repairs to its central buttresses and concrete spillway. These repairs will follow other extensive reconstruction efforts that have taken place over the past several years. More than 1,400 people with connections to New Hampshire were notified this year that their personal information may have been compromised and subject to identity theft, the Union Leader reported. Neiman Marcus, Legal Sea Foods, TD Bank and Butler University in Indiana were among institutions targeted in cyber security breaches that released the personal information of several New Hampshire residents. The information compromised ranges from insurance information to social security numbers to credit card data. Following its opening in July, the new Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital in Berlin has struggled to fill its 25 beds due to a shortage in its nursing staff, Vermont Public Radio reported. Traveling nurses now hold four nursing positions that the hospital hopes to fill. Traveling nurses are paid $54 an hour while staff nurses are being offered a package equivalent to $45 an hour, which some officials say lowers incentive for qualified nurses to seek permanent work at the hospital. Working as a psychiatric nurse requires demanding one-on-one patient care in a high risk environment. — Compiled by Laura Bucklin
Corrections We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth.com. “Unaffiliated men talk community” (Sept. 26, 2014): Inter-Community Council was a co-sponsor of Thursday’s panel. The organization was not responsible for creating the event, as the article originally stated.
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Dartmouth Outing Club first-year trips attract students to the DOC, president Hunter Van Adelsberg ’15 said. FROM TRIPS PAGE 1
Jacksonville, Wyoming. “I knew I wanted to go to a school where I could be outside all the time, because that’s how I recharge psychologically, academically, emotionally,” she said. When Resor went to the first Cabin and Trail meeting her freshman year, she said she immediately felt she was part of a community. Now, as a Cabin and Trail leader, she said she enjoys watching first-year students have a similar experience. Van Adelsberg said first-year trips also attract students to the DOC by exposing them to the club and encouraging people to spend time outdoors. In recent years, more than 90 percent of incoming students participated in trips, which include activities like mountain biking, horseback riding, flatwater kayaking and canoeing. Though she had never kayaked before coming to Dartmouth,
Kimberly Son ’17 said her whitewater kayaking trip and positive experience interacting with Grant Croo inspired her to join Ledyard. Son went with a group of Ledyard members to North Carolina last spring break, where she paddled
“We like to joke around that we have ‘social members’ who are an integral part of Ledyard, but don’t often paddle.” - KIMBERLY SON ’17, LEDYARD MEMBER down rapids. “We like to joke around that we have ‘social members’ who are an integral part of Ledyard, but don’t often paddle,” Son said. The Greek Leadership Council
policy blocking freshmen from attending Greek events serving alcohol for the first six weeks of term seems to have increased the amount of freshman involvement, Van Adelsberg said. He said the DOC strives to be open to anyone interested, noting that it has about 200 to 300 active members at any given time. Founded by a Dartmouth student in 1909, the club has introduced enduring College traditions, including Winter Carnival, first celebrated in 1911 and first-year trips, launched in 1935. The College ski team also evolved with the DOC, becoming the nation’s first intercollegiate ski team in 1909. In addition to participating in club activities, DOC members can use the Daniels Climbing Gym, buy discounted season passes for the Dartmouth Cross Country Ski Center and acquire DOC periodicals for free, among other benefits. “I love that we make adventures happen,” Van Adelsberg said.
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In Dartmouth’s case, Velez-Galan said, undergraduate advisors are often first to notice students in crisis, adding that at-risk students tend to reach out to peers before professionals or adults. The new suicide prevention program was incorporated into UGA training in the winter and this fall. So far, about 200 UGAs have been trained, along with members of student mental health group Active Minds and the athletic training staff. Five UGAs interviewed said they found the suicide prevention training beneficial. Liane Makatura ’17, Stylianos Tegas ’17 and Younji Lee ’17 emphasized that they had not previously realized that it was effective, not harmful, to ask a person directly if they are experiencing suicidal thoughts. As a result of the training, Lee said she looks more actively for warning signs in her freshman residents. These signs can include changes in personality, poor class attendance, increased isolation and impulsivity, according to the counseling and human development website. More than 20 staff members have learned how to conduct Campus Connect trainings, Velez-Galan said, adding that interested student groups and community members may undergo training upon request. Active Minds co-president Jake Donehey ’17, who participated in the training with his group last year, wrote in an email that he found the program, particularly the group exercises, effective and helpful in looking for distress in peers. Training sessions for faculty mem-
bers and other groups on campus are scheduled throughout the fall. Both the new website and the Campus Connect training fall under the banner of Dartmouth Cares, an initiative launched by former Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson in spring 2013 to promote mental health awareness, crisis intervention and suicide prevention on campus. Assistant director of student health promotion and wellness Amanda Childress said Dartmouth Cares allows students to access the help they need. “We’re streamlining the resources,” Childress said. “The idea behind this is to ensure that there isn’t a student falling through the cracks.” The health promotion and wellness office focuses on early prevention, Childress said, citing the Thriving pilot program, which looks at six dimensions of wellness — mental, intellectual, spiritual, social, physical and environmental — as one example of holistic self-care. Assistant Dean of the College Liz Agosto said that administrators sometimes encounter people with the misconception that Dartmouth is unaffected by mental health issues. “We know that there are students struggling with mental health issues and real concerns,” Agosto said. “It’s our responsibility as a campus to make sure that we are proactively setting up structures that will allow people to intervene and get people help.” Stephanie Pignatiello ’12 committed suicide in an off-campus apartment in summer 2012. According to the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, about 18 percent of undergraduates have seriously considered attempting suicide in their lifetimes.
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Staff Columnist Jon Miller ’15
contributing columnist Abhi Parajuli ’15
A Pedagogical Policy Change
The Issue With Inflation
The College’s new AP and four-course term policies are for the better. Recently, the Advanced Placement credit policy and the policy regarding how many fourcourse terms students can take without incurring extra tuition fees underwent significant changes at the College. The Class of 2018 is the first affected by the change of policy. For these students, AP credit awarded in high school can no longer count toward the 35 credits required to graduate. Although this policy has been unpopular among students, we should actually praise the College’s decision to uphold its commitment to high-quality education. The AP policy and four-course term policy changes fundamentally work toward the College’s pedagogic mission. It is unreasonable to argue that an AP credit is equivalent to a Dartmouth class, especially in language and science classes. Former Committee on Instruction chair Hakan Tell, who was interviewed by the New York Times and Inside Higher Ed in early 2013 regarding the change of policy, noted a sobering statistic: only 10 percent of more than 100 students who scored a five on their AP psychology exams passed Dartmouth’s introductory psychology exam. Clearly, AP classes (and the exam scores which come from them) are not equivalent to the College’s classes. They do not present the same level of difficulty or reflect a uniform understanding of the material offered. Though AP tests are standardized, the manner in which students are taught the material, and even the material itself, may vary from school to school. Tell also noted that many students use prematriculation credits to take more two-course terms, rather than graduate early and save on tuition fees. As Tell mentioned, this reduced course load is indeed a “pity” if we are to believe that students still come to Dartmouth to learn. Indeed, I have personally observed that pre-matriculation credits are often used not for their intended purpose. When students use credits to take more two-course terms or have “easier” schedules rather than to graduate earlier, our education is far less academically rigorous. This works against the mission of the College. Claims that the new policy makes the D-Plan
less flexible are unfounded. There is still more than ample time for students to fulfill their graduation requirements, major requirements and take a wide variety of classes — so much so that it is not uncommon to meet people who are double majors or who go on multiple study abroad trips unrelated to their majors. The D-Plan is still very flexible by most standards, and having fewer credits upon entering the College would have a very minimal effect (if any) on the flexibility of most students’ long-term schedules. As a transfer student who will only spend three years at the College — and who did not receive an enormous amount of useful classes transferred over from Cornell University — I have not found it particularly difficult to fulfill major requirements and graduation requirements even though I was essentially a year behind after transferring. With the loss of easy pre-matriculation credits, the College has increased the number of four-course terms students can take. Now, students can take four, not three, four-course terms without incurring extra tuition fees. Previously, taking a four-course term above the then-limit of three would have cost roughly an extra $5,000 in tuition. Last year, 35 students petitioned to do an extra four-course term despite the high cost. With this financial barrier gone, the new policy provides a great opportunity for students to take at least one extra class if they so desire. Four extra classes over the course of four years may not seem like a lot, but it can certainly prove useful if strategically planned. Any students genuinely interested in learning at Dartmouth should not lament the loss of pre-matriculation credits. Perhaps some students feel they can’t graduate early because of the new pre-matriculation credit policy change. But the new policy more than addresses that complaint. It sends a clear message: if you want to graduate early, you can — but you are going to do it by working hard, not by bringing in a bunch of (truthfully substandard) pre-matriculation credits. And under the academic standards of Dartmouth, this is how it should be.
Grade inflation may be based on a few discrete issues.
The average grade at Harvard was about a C+ 65 years ago, according to Stuart Rojstaczer, a former Duke professor. Today, it is roughly an A-. What does this tell us? Well, the biggest lesson from this statistic is that averages can be misleading. There is rampant grade inflation at Dartmouth, but it may be driven by a few departments trying to draw in more students. Take the theater department, which graduated only eight majors in 2013. Based on analysis of grades awarded between 2007 to 2011 (carried out by Brian Solomon ’11 at Dartblog), the median student in that department got an average grade of an A. He also noted that the average median grade of classes in theater, Arabic and Chinese were 3.9, 3.86 and 3.81, while those for classes in chemistry, biology and math were 3.22, 3.33, 3.34. While grades are not necessarily an indication of how challenging a class is, it seems that grade inflation, or higher grades in general, is more common in the humanities than in the sciences and social sciences. I wondered why this was the case. One possible explanation is that departments and faculty may be inflating grades to attract more students. At a departmental level, we can see if this is true by comparing the average enrollment in classes offered by a department and a department’s median grade. Data on average enrollments is not publicly available, but the College lists economics, government, history, engineering sciences, psychology, brain sciences and the biological sciences as the most popular majors, which suggests those department’s classes are also among the most popular. The average grades in these departments are also the lowest. Correlation is not causation, but the link is stark. Perhaps the smallest departments are inflating grades to draw in students and remain relevant. This scramble for students may play out within departments as well. I worry that in departments with subfields, the popularity of the courses in each area drives the hiring within the subfields. Courses with higher median grades, all else being equal, have higher enrollments, potentially creating perverse incentives to inflate grades and
fill classes. The government department just formalized a grading policy limiting the median grade for seminars to an A- and non-seminars to a B+. Looking for changes in hiring patterns before and after this rule could demonstrate if intra-department politics play into grade inflation, too. At an individual level, professors may also be inflating grades to fill their classes. Because hiring and tenure decisions depend largely on research and teaching, student satisfaction and the ability to fill classes may marginally matter. Assistant professors who have not received tenure may be more likely to play the game to get good student evaluations and fill classes. Full professors, on the other hand, have little incentive to inflate grades. If assistant professors are inflating grades to fill classes and get better student evaluations, their median grades should be significantly higher than those for full professors. The data to investigate this hypothesis is actually published by the department, with course syllabi revealing which professors taught specific sections of the same course, and termly median grades showing how “easily” they graded. While I have not run a proper regression, a cursory glance at the data suggests junior faculty inflate their grades to get positive student reviews and fill classes. Anecdotal evidence from the Brown Daily Herald also suggests that this is true, as they wrote on March 12, “Dean of the Faculty Kevin McLaughlin said student course evaluations, which play a large role in evaluating faculty members’ teaching, exacerbate the frequency with which As are handed out.” Grade inflation hurts us all. As the problem becomes institutional, employers and others start discounting the GPA in favor of other tools like standardized test scores. This is already the case — some investment banks and management consulting firms ask applicants to report SAT scores on their resumes. If the administration is serious about tackling the issue, it must start targeting the departments that are really driving the problem. If junior faculty are found to be inflating grades, promotion practices may need to be redesigned to discourage this practice. Dartmouth can and should do more to make grades count.
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I did not have a typical Dartmouth experience. For one, I was an extracurricular interloper. I had temporary involvements in Aquinas House, Casual Thursday, Cabin and Trail, and — though I never rushed — my picture can be found in the 2006 composite of Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority members. I led a Dartmouth Outing Club first-year trip in organic farming. I was a Russian drill instructor for two terms. I also missed my senior year because I was struggling with early episodes of bipolar disorder. I resented that the
College made it so impossible for me to find a firm footing. Yet I had no solidified sense of my identity at that point. How could I have expected to fit in? It doesn’t bother me that current students are trying to fix what needs fixing in Hanover. Nothing should remain exactly the same. But I hope you will consider this lesson I gratefully learned when I returned to graduate a year behind and ended up taking six of the best classes of my life: You don’t change Dartmouth. Dartmouth changes you.
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VOLLEYBALL UPENDS HARVARD
MEN’S SOCCER CRUISES VERSUS FORDHAM
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In a gripping battle against powerhouse Harvard University, the volleyball team improved to 10-2 overall and 1-0 in Ivy League action, winning three sets to one on Saturday. In its first conference match, before a crowd that included proud Dartmouth volleyball alumnae, the Big Green rallied through four grueling sets at Leede Arena to deliver Harvard its first loss of the season, ending the Crimson’s five-game win streak. “I was really excited to get the Ivy conference started,” head coach Erin Lindsey said. “Harvard is a very strong opponent, and I told the team we just need to earn our points and make them earn theirs.” The Dartmouth women fought long and hard to earn their victory. After trailing for most of the first set, a kill by Paige Caridi ’16 and an attack error by the opponent pulled the Big Green ahead before a combined block by Dartmouth led to a 27-25 set win. In the second set, the Big Green kept its attack errors down while intensifying its offense. Aggressive serving by setter Stacey Benton ’17 gave Dartmouth a 4-0 run early in the set. The Crimson came within three points of the Big Green before Dartmouth extended its lead to six points with a 25-19 win. But, Harvard would not go down without a fight, taking a 5-0 lead right off the bat in the third set.
“We really didn’t come out strong,” Caridi said. “We didn’t attack with intention, and Harvard’s good at having comebacks.” The home team bounced back and tied it at 16-16 off of a kill by Kaira Lujan ’16 and an attack error by Harvard’s sophomore setter Corinne Bain. The teams traded points before the Big Green got its first lead of the set at 21-20. Just as Dartmouth reached game point at 24-23, a series of Crimson kills and blocks ended the third set at 24-26 and forced a fourth set. “I thought that the third set was well fought,” Lindsey said. “I thought we could’ve won that set and that we could’ve been more aggressive to finish it off, but that’s part of the learning process.” The fourth set began as the second had with renewed focus in favor of the Big Green. “We reconvened and decided that we needed to come out stronger and with more intensity,” Caridi said. The increased aggressiveness paid off as Dartmouth had two 4-0 runs during this set alone with a late run capped off by a service ace by Alex Schoenberger ’15 at 24-16. The Big Green struggled to close out the game, allowing the Crimson to go on a 5-0 run, but after nearly two hours of action, a kill by Benton sealed the game for the Big Green at 25-21. “As an alumna, it was awesome to see that energy,” Erin Alkire ’02 said. “It felt like we were a part of that win and beating Harvard is always
exciting. I’m proud of Dartmouth for celebrating women’s athletics and volleyball.” Emily Astarita ’17 led the match with 15 kills followed by co-captain Caridi with 14 kills and Molly Kornfeind ’17 with 12. Passing was key in earning sideouts as Julia Lau ’17 recorded 16 digs and Benton added 14. Although the Crimson out-blocked the home team 9-7, the Big Green had a better kill-
to-error ratio, 57-20 to Harvard’s 53-24. Equally impressive was Morgan Waterman ’18 who made her debut in an Ivy League game and was tasked with serving towards the close of the pivotal third set. “I’m proud of the team and I like the intensity that we played with,” Waterman said. The Big Green will host Brown University Friday at 7 p.m.
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The volleyball team got off to a fast start in Ivy play with a four-set win.
Men’s soccer cruises against Fordham 2-0
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Total yards by the football team against UNH, less than the Wildcats ran and passed for individually.
In the schools’ first meeting, the men’s soccer team beat Fordham University 2-0 at Burnham Field. After a deadlocked first half, the Big Green (3-2-1, 0-0-0 Ivy) reevaluated its strategy, then capitalized on a few key opportunities to seal a victory. On an unusually warm fall afternoon, with temperatures in the low 80s, the game started off slowly for
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the Big Green, as both teams struggled to take control of the midfield. Both teams played reserved styles in the first half, as they sought to impose their game plans on an unfamiliar opponent. As with all match-ups against unfamiliar teams, defenseman Nick Rooney ’15 said, the Big Green focused on its own performance rather than worry about what the team was bringing in. “It’s not about the other team so much as it’s about playing to the level that we should be able to play at,” he said. Head coach Chad Riley said that tight first halves will likely be a trend for the Big Green this season. It was only in the locker room between the first and second half that the Big Green made the necessary adjustments to take the win. “We were pretty adamant at halftime about switching things up, getting a little more aggressive on the attacking side of the play, really starting to create some chances, and to our offense’s credit, we really got in there and got after it,” Rooney said.
This meant not only changing the tempo, but also some of the players. Dartmouth made some important lineup adjustments mid-game to better dictate the pace, swapping in Tommy Johnson ’15 and Eric Jayne
’15, who both recorded points for the Big Green in the second half. “And then we just simplified everything, so it was energy, simple — get SEE MSOCC PAGE SW 4
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The men’s soccer team kept rolling with a 2-0 win over Fordham.
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In the first meeting of the only two Division I football programs in New Hampshire since 2009, the Big Green fell short, losing to No. 7 University of New Hampshire 52-19 Saturday night in Durham. Dartmouth (1-1, 0-0 Ivy) fell behind early and could never fully recover from the Wildcats’ (3-1, 1-0 CAA) dominant start.
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“They’re a good football team, I can see why they’re ranked the way they are,” head coach Buddy Teevens said in a press conference after the loss. On its first drive of the game, UNH drove 85 yards for a touchdown thanks to a 69-yard touchdown run from the Wildcats’ backup senior quarterback Andy Vailas who started in place of the injured starter junior Sean Goldrich. “I’m very impressed with Vailas,” Teevens said. “He made just about every play.” A two-point conversion after that touchdown scamper brought UNH to an early eight-point lead. Dartmouth went three-and-out on its next possession, but while preparing
to punt, the snap flew over the head of Dartmouth punter Ben Kepley ’17 and out of the back of the end zone for a safety. The Big Green found itself looking up at a 10-0 deficit just over four minutes into the game. After the safety punt, UNH had the ball again with great field position, starting at its own 46 yard line. The Wildcats marched efficiently down the field in 1:50 for another score to put them up 17-0. The Big Green fought back, scoring touchdowns on their next two drives to claw within four at the end of the first quarter. But, this would be as close as the two teams would be for the remainder of the game. The Big Green’s first scoring drive was an impressive 88-yard, 5:01 attack that ended with a touchdown pass from Dalyn Williams ’16 to tight end Stephen Johnston ’18 off of play action. The Big Green was saved from an interception earlier on the drive when the play was called back after a UNH defender was flagged for roughing the passer. Alex Gakenheimer ’17 missed the PAT, however, keeping the Big Green down by 11. The Dartmouth defense made a big play of its own on the next drive, forcing a Vailas fumble on the tail end of a scramble. Safety Stephen Dazzo ’15 recovered the ball at the UNH 37 and the offense took advantage of the opportunity. Williams launched another
touchdown strike on the ensuing drive, this one from 12 yards out to running back Kyle Bramble ’16. But, the UNH offense picked up again in the second quarter, scoring twice more to blow open the game to 31-13. Dartmouth looked to score once more before halftime after Kirby Schoenthaler ’15 brought a kickoff back 92 yards to the UNH 2 yard line. “It was a nice personal effort,” Teevens said. “He has the capability, and we’d like to see him do a lot of that this year.” But the Dartmouth offense was forced to settle for a 26-yard Gakenheimer field goal. In the second half, the Big Green offense was consistently frustrated and came away with only a 41-yard field goal. The Wildcats would tally more than 500 yards of offense on the day, including 267 on the ground, and converted 10 of 14 third-down opportunities that kept many of their drives alive. Dartmouth lost the time of possession battle for the second straight weekend, holding the ball for only 26:56 compared to the opponents’ 33:04, including a staggering 1:08 to 13:52 differential in the fourth quarter. Williams finished the game with 108 passing yards with two touchdowns and one interception. Bramble led the Big SEE FOOTBALL PAGE SW 4
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High temperatures and a persistent Brown University squad held the women’s soccer team to a 1-1 tie in the Big Green’s Ivy League opener at Burnham Field, which extended its home unbeaten streak to 16 games. Lucielle Kozlov ’16 scored midway through the first half for Dartmouth. The Big Green (3-2-2) held this lead until the 88th minute, when Brown junior Erin Katz scored to send it to overtime.
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After two scoreless 10-minute periods, the game ended in a tie. The contest was head coach Ron Rainey’s first in the Ivy League. Though Dartmouth had chances, including a free kick goal-scoring opportunity just a minute in, much of the beginning of the game went back-and-forth. The Big Green began to take control as the game continued. Dartmouth women earned 11 corner kicks and kept Brown to just one, and took 17 shots to Brown’s eight. “We take it game by game, so before today Brown was the most important
game, the only game, we had on our mind,” Kozlov said. “We let in a pretty unfortunate goal, but we also had opportunities to finish, so we could have gone up 3-0.” Kozlov, who leads the team so far this season eight points on four goals, scored in the 19th minute. A cross from defender Jackie Friedman ’16 landed near the far corner of the six-yard box, and both Corey Delaney ’16 and Lindsay Knutson ’18 made attempts to send the ball towards the goal. As the ball bounced back out, Kozlov put it in the far side of the cage. Both sides saw opportunities, but the half ended with three saves by Brown’s senior goalkeeper Mallory Yant. Goalie Tatiana Saunders ’15 has fought an injury that caused her to miss the team’s last two games, but played the entirety of Sunday’s contest. And the game brought another injury — with five minutes left in the period, defender Meredith Gurnee ’17 competed with a Brown defender for a header. After a bad landing, Gurnee went to the hospital. Brown launched a counterattack with two minutes to play, when freshman Mikela Waldman opened up space for a cross. A relatively empty box gave Katz room to put the ball away. “One-zero is the most dangerous score in soccer, and it showed today,” Kozlov
said. “Yeah, we tied, but we want that win. We’re all going in that a locker room mad. I’m happy that we’re mad because you need that fight, you need that drive, so next time, when we play Princeton, we don’t want this feeling — we want to win.” The Big Green had some chances in overtime, including two free kicks, but could not convert them. The team looked particularly strong getting the ball down the sideline and around for crosses and corner kick opportunities. “We do a good job of turning the corner on backs, and when we do that, now we need to get behind that player and serve away from them and not give up corners,” Rainey said. The Big Green women went undefeated at home last year, and today’s tie extends this streak. Rainey said the team needs to bring its home-field mentality on the road. “Obviously you like to start the season with a win, but we also didn’t start the season with a loss,” Friedman said. “Going forward we just need to learn from this game.” The Big Green hits the road for its next contest at Sacred Heart University at 5 p.m. on Sept. 30. The next home game will be under the lights against Yale University on Oct. 11 at 7 p.m.
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I sat down with Tyler Sikura ’15, the captain of the men’s hockey team. After a disappointing first half last season, the Big Green surged to move up in the playoff standings. The team upset No. 7 seed Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute before falling in two games to No. 1 seed Union College. Last week, the team was picked to finish sixth in the preseason poll. What does the preseason ranking mean for the team? TS: I don’t think we look into it that much. In this league, it’s really tough to predict before the season starts who’s going to have a breakout year, who’s going to battle injuries and what not. So we don’t really read into it all that much, and I think we’re going to do better than sixth, personally. That’s our hope. What does your training look like? TS: This year, the Ivy League did a couple of different rules where we can work with the coaches a little bit more, so we’ve been practicing with them a little bit — we get like an hour a week or something like that. Then we have captain’s practices on the days that aren’t with the coaches and lifts a couple of times a week. I think we’re all in really good shape. Our testing is out of the way, and we’re just gearing up now for the season.We normally just do a couple drills and then scrimmage. I got some experience last year running captain’s practices, so this year it has been easier because we have a better idea of what drills work and what don’t. The other captains and I will meet briefly before practice and decide what we want to do that day. With the rule changes we’re allotted a couple hours a week to work with the coaches, so we can work on some team concepts and position-specific skills that we can’t do in captain’s practice. Since we already start later than all the other teams in college hockey hopefully this evens the playing field a little bit when we get into the early part of our schedule. Have you guys talked about what your goals are going to be this season? TS: Briefly. I think everyone wants to make it to the NCAA tournament. That’s kind of been our goal since I’ve been here, and I think this is a group that’s capable of doing it so I’m pretty excited.We’re returning many key guys this upcoming year, and the group we have has been through a lot together, so we believe we have the talent level and experience to be a really good team this year.
You’re a captain this year. What’s that like? TS: I definitely got a taste of it last year. It’ll be nice to have Eric Robinson ’14 back, who was an assistant captain but missed the year unfortunately with an injury. We’ve added Eric Neiley ’15 to the leadership group as well, who has done a great job so far. It’s just nice to be a senior and be really comfortable around everyone and try to embrace that leadership role. You were injured last year, so how has it been for you going through the recovery process? TS: Last spring, I took some time off and got time to heal everything up and train over the summer. I’m feeling 100 percent now and ready to go. Outside of the rink, are there any team activities that you do? TS: We do pretty much everything together, whether it’s studying or eating meals or whatnot, so you get to know the guys really well. We’re a pretty funny group, so we can really make anything entertaining. Have you volunteered as a team? TS: Just recently, we did a volunteer thing with USA Hockey in the mornings with up-and-coming kids. We do the CHaD toy drive, which is something we look forward to over at the hospital. We collect teddy bears and other kinds of toys from our fans at a game and then bring them over to the kids. That’s always a highlight of our year. That’s over winter break. What is it like being here over the winter break? TS: It kind of reminds me of Juniors. It gets a little bit grim sometimes, but you’re just playing hockey and getting to know your guys a lot. All you’ve got is each other so you’ve got to make it entertaining but it’s fun. You don’t have to worry about school or anything so you can just focus on hockey. We get about 10 days when we get to go home, and then are back on the 26th for practice. Do you have any professional players that you look up to? TS: I mean there’s been a couple over the years, but more recently, somebody like Matt Lindblad ’14, who has moved on and played professional hockey. I was just talking to him yesterday. He’s doing really well for himself. That’s the guy I’ll kind of look to for advice. He’s somebody that’s been through the same stuff as you have and can kind of give you a hand. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
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Football falls to 1-1 with UNH loss FROM FOOTBALL PAGE SW 3
Green on the ground, gaining 51 yards on 15 attempts. The team could only manage 262 yards of total offense and 3-12 on third downs. UNH will likely be the toughest opposition the Big Green will face this season. The Wildcats were ranked seventh in the nation in the most recent FCS coaches’ poll. No Ivy League schools cracked the top 25, and Harvard University was the only one to receive votes. Central Connecticut State
University and the College of the Holy Cross, Dartmouth’s other two non-conference games this season, also did not receive any votes in the poll. “We’re a better football team than the last time we lined up the last time we played them,” Teevens said. “I think we’re a much more competitive team right now and it was just a comedy of errors that contributed to the stretch.” Princeton University, last year’s co-Ivy Champion, opened the season with a 39-29 loss at University of San Diego before defeating
Davidson University, both unranked teams. Harvard, the other co-champion, defeated Holy Cross and has defending Patriot League champion Lafayette on its schedule for later this season. The most impressive Ivy team in non-conference play so far has been Yale, who notched a shocking 49-43 upset of the FBS U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Saturday at the Yale Bowl. The Big Green opens Ivy League play next weekend when the team hosts the University of Pennsylvania Quakers at Memorial Field.
Men’s soccer moves to 3-2-1 with win FROM MSOCC PAGE SW 2
the ball wide, get crosses in the box, and we knew that was going to cause them trouble,” Riley said. That push of energy was a crucial component of the team’s second half offensive onslaught. The Big Green’s first notch on the scoreboard came as Rooney headed home a goal off of a well-placed throw-in by Johnson in the 53rd minute. “Long throws are always a good chance for us,” Rooney said, noting that he told Johnson he wanted it deeper toward the goal. The second goal of the day for the Big Green came fewer than 20 minutes later, with Jayne netting his third goal of the season. Alnas and Jayne ran a give-and-go that ended just inside the box where Jayne slammed the goal home. Hugh Danilack ’15 was also credited with an assist on the play. “I thought our fitness, our preparation, our guys taking care of the details
really let us push the last,” Riley said. Goalkeeper Stefan Cleveland ’16 pushed up his record to 3-2-1 with a shutout on Saturday. Cleveland, who had split time with James Hickok ’17, has played full matches in the last four games now with two shutouts coming in those last four. Big Green players say they are optimistic about this season, especially as they look to Ivy League play, beginning with an away game against Princeton University on Saturday. Midfielder Gabe Hoffman-Johnson ’14 pointed to a high number of returning players and a talented freshman class as strengths, and said last season’s 1-6 Ivy League disappointment was a turning point for the Big Green. “We have high goals, which we always do — we didn’t reach them least season,” Hoffman-Johnson said. “Our first two games this year were against two teams who won the national championship last year and the year before. We played with them, we
played pretty well and we’ve proved to ourselves that we can compete at that level so we expect to do well.” The Big Green looks to make the NCAA tournament this season, pointing at upcoming Ivy League match-ups as critical to their hopes. Hoffman-Johnson also acknowledged the Big Green fans as a major source of inspiration for the team. “Best fans in the nation, honestly you start to realize that when you go other places — there’s nobody there,” Hoffman-Johnson said. “Growing up in New England and having friends on different teams, you hear about how much they hate coming to play us at home because they just get heckled the whole time. It makes us more pumped to get out and play in front of these guys.” The team returns to action with a game at the University of Vermont on Wednesday and a game at Princeton on Saturday. It then comes home to face Central Connecticut State University on Tuesday, Oct. 7.
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: SWING IT IN
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The women’s soccer team tied Brown 1-1 in its first Ivy League matchup of the season.
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Focus groups talk Montgomery Fellow nomination process FROM FELLOWS PAGE 1
artists. Gowin’s residency follows a series of focus group sessions held earlier this year to collect student feedback on the program. Five sessions were held in February, during which 25 students — roughly five per session — met over lunch to discuss the Montgomery program. The 119 students who were initially invited were leaders of campus student organizations, Wohlforth said. Focus groups discussed allowing students to nominate fellows. While students can make suggestions, only faculty can make formal nominations.
Gowin was nominated in 2012 by studio art professor Virginia Beahan, a former mentee of his. The Hood Museum of Art, which has a number of Gowin’s works in its permanent collection, endorsed the nomination. Gavin Huang ’14, a focus group participant, said that he wanted to see not only faculty but also students and College staff involved in the nomination process. Wohlforth said that although students in the focus groups were interested in the nomination process, no major concerns were raised regarding the openness of the selection process. “They asked about it, and they were curious about it, but no one
commented to me, ‘I think this is a closed or a stacked process,’” she said. The program’s schedule makes it
“No one commented to me, ‘I think this is a closed or a stacked process.’” - CHRISTIANNE WOHLFORTH, PROGRAM DIRECTOR difficult to cater to student interest, Wohlforth said, as it often takes two years from nomination to residency.
Students said in the groups that they wanted to see greater diversity among fellows. Participant Arianna Vailas ’14 said her focus group felt passionately about boosting diversity in the gender and race of fellows. Although there are no specific plans at the moment, Wohlforth said she hopes to hold more focus groups. The program was created in 1977 by Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth F. Montgomery ’25 to enrich learning by bringing fellows to campus. During their residence, fellows stay at Montgomery House anywhere from two days to a full year, during which they deliver lectures, put on performances and exhibi-
tions or teach a course in their field of expertise. Past fellows have included Kurt Vonnegut, Michel Foucault and former U.S. president Gerald Ford. More recently, the Montgomery program has played host to German filmmaker Werner Herzog, musician and activist Johnny Clegg and artist Enrique Martínez Celaya. Future fellows will include Sir Malcolm Grant, chairman of England’s National Health Service, and Bernardine Evaristo, a poet. The New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg will come to campus next fall to cover the 2016 presidential debates and New Hampshire primaries. Huang is a former member of The Dartmouth Senior Staff.
Representatives say pledge term ban will lower house inequality FROM RUSH PAGE 1
a number of house representatives show that at least 241 men accepted bids. At Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity, 24 men accepted bids; Beta Alpha Omega fraternity, 34; Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity, 16; Gamma Delta Chi fraternity, 22; Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity, 18; Psi Upsilon fraternity, 35; Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, 19; Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, 35; Theta Delta Chi fraternity, 22; Zeta Psi fraternity, 16, according to representatives from each house. Sigma Nu fraternity has yet to finalize bids but expects about the same number of new members as last fall, when 12 accepted bids, president Blaze Joel ’15 said. Representatives of Alpha Delta, Bones Gate, Chi Heorot and Phi Delta Alpha fraternities did not respond to numerous requests for comment on Sunday. Of the 10 fraternities that provided final bid numbers by press time, half saw fewer bids than last fall and half saw more. SAE dropped from 35 bids to 19, Tri Kap dropped from 25 to 18 and Zete dropped from 28 to 16. The number of men who accepted Chi Gam bids doubled from 8 to 16, while at Sig Ep that figure increased from 28 to 35. Twenty-two men accepted bids at GDX, seven more than last year. In fall 2013, more than 350 of 400 men who participated in the fraternity recruitment process accepted bids. This winter, fraternities extended 26 bids. This weekend’s fraternity recruitment season follows heightened campus debate over the role of the Greek system and its relationship to harmful behaviors like binge drinking, sexual assault and exclusivity. During a closed meeting with Greek organization leaders on Sept. 16, College President Phil Hanlon and Board of Trustees Chair Bill Helman urged a reevaluation of student drinking,
adult oversight of social spaces and freshman safety. The IFC voted unanimously on Sept. 21 to eliminate pledge terms, which have historically been probationary periods for new members. Now, fraternities must immediately offer men who accept bids the full rights and privileges of current members. In March, SAE’s national leadership announced that all chapters would no longer allow members to complete a pledging process before fully joining the house. According to its policy, members must be initiated as brothers within 96 hours of receiving their bid. Chockley said that the pledge term ban aims to increase inclusivity. “The pledge term ban targets the inequality between pledges and brothers,” Chockley said. Chi Gam president Zachary Queen ’15 echoed Chockley, noting that the ban on pledge term was not about preventing hazing, which is illegal, but about treating all members of the house equally. “Hazing has never been condoned, it’s always been an actual offense,” Queen said. “What it’s really about is ending the two-tiered membership system so everyone’s on an equal playing field.” Tri Kap president Anka Tezcan ’15 said the pledge term ban did not affect his fraternity’s rush process. Jalen Benson ’17, who rushed and received a bid at Sig Ep, said he feels “really good” about the pledge term ban and its goal of demolishing inequality. “It changes the dynamic between brothers and pledges,” Benson said. “It takes away the negative dynamics.” A male member of the Class of 2017 who accepted a bid at a fraternity and requested anonymity due to fear of backlash, said he is indifferent about the pledge term ban and expects that pledge term activities will continue in some fashion.
“I think most of the houses are going to figure out a way to subject the pledges to certain activities, whether that be cleaning the house or doing other sorts of duties,” he said. “I can almost guarantee that there will be some sort of a pledge term.” Sig Ep had 105 rushees and 60 shake-outs and extended 35 bids, which is roughly consistent with prior years, president Eli Derrow ’15 said. Queen said that although Chi Gam did not get as many rushees as desired, the house saw a big improvement from last year. The negative media attention the College has received over the past few years could have contributed to lower overall rush numbers this year, he said. “I think part of that is that people
read all these stories in the media, people’s parents read them, and they’re hesitant about rushing,” he said. “I really hope that next year, more people will turn out for rush in general.” Beta rush chair Joseph Geller ’16 said the house had eight more shakeouts and extended two more bids than last year. He said that people who want to rush do so regardless of the existence of a pledge term. Fabian Stocek ’17 said he decided not to rush because he has found community elsewhere and did not enjoy spending time in fraternity basements freshman year. Benson said that although he was nervous during the rush process, he had a positive experience and is excited
to be a member of his pledge class. During the night of rush, he felt “super welcome and invited,” he said. The male member of the Class of 2017 said that although he did not receive a bid from his first-choice house, he accepted one elsewhere. After disregarding the “prestige factor” of the first house, he determined that the second house was ultimately for him, he said. “After I found out I didn’t get in, I was more mad that I decided to rush there versus the other house, where I had a lot in common with people overall,” he said. “It turned out for the better.” Joel is a member of The Dartmouth senior staff. Geller is a member of The Dartmouth’s opinion staff.
STUDENTS, ASSEMBLE
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Student body president Casey Dennis ’15 and vice president Frank Cunningham ’16 held open office hours Sunday night.
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY All day “Corresponding Friendships: Robert Frost’s Letters,” Rauner Special Collections Library
4:30 p.m. “Past Climate on the Polar Ice Sheets: What Have We Discovered?” Lecture with Thayer Professor Mary Albert, Haldeman 41
6:30 p.m. “Letterpress Orientation with Bob Metzler,” Baker Library, Rooms 23 and 25
TOMORROW 3:30 p.m. Physics and Astronomy space plasma seminar, with professor Meers Oppenheim of Boston University, Wilder 111
4:30 p.m. “A Discussion with Michael Morell, Former Deputy Director of the CIA,” Cook Auditorium
7:00 p.m. Rivers Rutherford’s Performance & Workshop, Top of the Hop
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‘Twins’ shows family at rock bottom Seidler Ramirez’73 curates National Sept.11 Museum B y andrew kingsley The Dartmouth Staff
The sad clown character originated in 17th-century France with Pierrot, a tragically naïve lover. An emblem for the lonely sufferer and struggling artist, the character appeared on Europe’s stage for three centuries. Pierrot’s struggles are born anew — and doubled — in director Craig Johnson’s new dramedy, “The Skeleton Twins” (2014), his second featurelength film. In the film’s opening, estranged twins Milo and Maggie coincidentally attempt suicide at nearly the same moment. Milo’s attempt (Bill Hader) to cut his wrists lands him at the hospital, and Maggie (Kristen Wiig) is interrupted from downing a handful of pills when she receives a call about her brother. After 10 years apart, the “Gruesome Twosome” reunite and find a way to tread water, buoyed with hopes of discovering where they went so wrong. Milo, a failed actor living in Los Angeles, remains hung up on his closeted high school English teacher Rich (Ty Burrell), with whom he had sex at 15. Milo is Hader’s “Saturday Night Live” Stefon character reincarnated, but with the knob turned down to nearly mute. Instead of advertisements for clubs like Oomph and Crease, we get sardonic jibes aimed at Maggie’s Martha Stewart
catalogue home and apple pie husband, Lance (Luke Wilson). Maggie, a dental hygienist, cheats on Lance with her scuba diving, French-cooking nature photography instructor. Each acts like his or her SNL persona straitjacketed within layers of mid-life anxieties. Intercut between their moments of distress are flashes from a childhood Halloween, when their father was still alive, in which the twins play with toy skeletons while lovingly dressing each other up. Supposedly a moment of sibling grace, the memory is thrown into stark relief against the harsh realities of their adult lives. With an inattentive, egotistical mother and father who died early, the siblings hide behind a thick skin of resigned cynicism. While Johnson occasionally allows the former SNL heavyweights to let their shticks shine through — when they inhale nitrous oxide together at the dentist’s office or dress up for Halloween — the film’s tone is generally morose and discontent. Moments of whimsy or delight are immediately undercut by some devastating revelation. An uplifting lip-synced dance to Starship’s “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now,” arguably the film’s best scene, comes to an abrupt halt when Rich slams a door in Milo’s face. And the twins enjoy inflicting pain on each other. Like an indie “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ” (1966), Milo
and Maggie jump in where George and Martha left off, each spewing vitriol to emotionally crush the other and gain some faux sense of stability. They endure the present traumas to forget older ones. As Martha laments, Milo and Maggie are “sad, sad, sad.” Do not let the trailer fool you; it condenses all the film’s laughs into a two-minute snapshot, tempting viewers like cheese on a mousetrap. After a couple more suicide attempts, the twins hit the rock-hard bottom of “reality.” In what Thoreau would call their transcendental moment, they finally acknowledge that they are drowning. Like Milo’s pet goldfish, however, they will need short memories to distance themselves from the trauma of their pasts. As Maggie laments, “We must find a way not to be disappointed with life.” Each twin hopes to shed his or her Pierrot straitjacket and become the no longer sad clown, enjoying life instead of mocking it. Like a bad Houdini trick though, these two have been underwater for too long. Exhausted, the audience can at least escape the anguish when the film’s credits roll. Rating: 6.5/10 “The Skeleton Twins” is playing at 4:40 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the Nugget.
Illness keeps Misterwives offstage FROM CONCERT PAGE 12
a Dartmouth tee at the concert, though he did not get a discount, as he told audience members. Bukola Badipe-Hart ’15, who was not familiar with the group before the show, said she met the group’s members during the day and was excited to see them perform. The Euphemisms also drew her to the concert, she said. “I think it’s great to see the studentrun bands come out,” Badipe-Hart said. “It encourages the music scene.” While the crowd at the event consisted of many members of the Class of 2018, it also represented a diverse selection of the Dartmouth community. The concert was included on the “First Six” program calendar, which promotes events open to freshmen during the six-week ban from Greek houses serving alcohol. “I think it’s a great idea,” Stylianos Tegas ’17, who attended the concert, said about “Fallapalooza.” “I think it’s a good thing at the beginning of the term to have alternative social spaces for people, especially because this weekend is rush.” Dale Li ’18 said “free food, music, and bouncy houses” brought her to “Fallapalooza,” while Emily Yang ’18
said she enjoyed attending a campuswide event that featured a festival-like atmosphere. “Fallapalooza” was The Eupemisms’s first performance of the term and an “extremely strong” showing by the group, saxaphonist and singer Hannah O’Flynn ’15 said. O’Flynn described the band’s influences as “funk, ska and alternative rock,” ska referring to a genre that preceded modern reggae. The group includes lead singer Dan Calano ’15, bassist and flutist Leif Harder ’15, trumpeter and
synth keyboard player Ben Meyer ’15, guitarist Carl Neisser ’15, drummer Moises Silva ’16, guitarist Zach Wooster ’15 and O’Flynn. The band added Meyer and Wooster this term, which has changed the group’s sound, Neisser said. The band has evolved from low-key jam sessions during summer 2013 to its current seven-member act with consistent bookings at student events. “Now that we have keyboard and a second guitar, we can’t just do exclusively Sum 41 and Blink-182,” Neisser said.
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Oh Honey was one of three professional acts to play at “Fallapalooza.”
B y michaela ledoux The Dartmouth Staff
Jan Seidler Ramirez ’73 is chief curator and director of collections for the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York City. An American studies scholar, she has curated, researched and managed major collections in Boston and New York for the past 30 years. The Memorial Museum, which opened in May, recently celebrated its millionth visitor. How were you involved in the arts at Dartmouth? JSR: I would say in two phases. The first was as an undergraduate taking art history classes, mostly American art history. It was very much a part of my humanities exposure and training. I was an English major, but I was really an American studies major. [In] phase two, many years after I entered the museum field, Dartmouth actually found me after the Hood Museum came into reality. They had a board of overseers, similar to a board of trustees, and they wanted a few of these spots taken up by Dartmouth graduates involved in the arts. It took you out of your Class, so to speak, and connected you to this whole network of graduates who were interested in or passionate about the arts. How did you start as a curator? JSR: I was pushed right into the deep end, and it was sink or swim. The summer after I graduated, I was lucky enough to get a public affairs internship. I went to Boston’s City Hall and knocked on the door at the [Boston] Cultural Council. The planets aligned, because this was around the time they were preparing for the bicentennial, and Boston was the seat of so much of that. The city of Boston decided they would do three major exhibits: Boston in the 20th century, Boston in the 18th century as the hub of the American Revolution and 19th-century Boston, the Boston of great literature and cultural impact. I was actually offered up to that project as a researcher. It was such an incredible opportunity. For me, the light bulbs began to go off. Outside of class, books and documentaries, there was this whole other stage for presenting stories, and it was in museums. You tell your stories through the original material and cultural expressions of the period. My principal area had been 19th-century American literature and this shifted me into a new field for academia: curatorial culture studies, which [holds that] an object has historical potency if you understand how to ask questions of it. I went to Boston University for American Studies, and as part of the coursework, I had to serve a six-month practicum where you had to take aca-
demic knowledge and begin to have practical exposure. I was assigned to work at the [Museum of Fine Arts] in Boston. They had a new chief curator who had the goal of illustrating a story. I got to work on a “Paul Revere’s Boston[: 1735-1818]” exhibit and also on one about the American Far West. Once I was bitten by that bug, there was no going back. The assistant curator of that department was taking a leave, and the chief curator asked me if I would take her place for three years. It was a dream. What parts of your job do you find most interesting or challenging? JSR: I would say that 9/11, as a time-stamped event, basically lasts about 102 minutes at the center of the storm. My interests have never been getting in so deep into those 102 minutes that you lose what came before and after. It was an event that peeled back who we were at the beginning of the 21st century. How did our society work? How did it work in New York City? How did it work nationally? How did it work globally? It’s also about how Americans tell their story. It’s about historical themes. To understand 9/11, you have to understand Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Gettysburg, and you have to understand the narrative of the American Revolution. It is an event that absolutely also peels back the vulnerability and important global interdependence of the 21st century. There’s this powerful awareness — about one-third of the world’s population is said to have experienced 9/11. Unfortunately, the death statistics include people from 92 different nations. That says something, too, about how Americans own this narrative. Unfortunately, terror has been a theme and scourge that has deep roots in the world, and there are many societies that endured this type of assault over time. It’s very emotional work, and it’s not for everybody. This job has taught me so much about human compassion and the power of a community to respond, help and to hold out a hand to be resourceful in a time of crisis. The legacy of 9/11 has some very positive stories that people should take great comfort in. Hopefully they find this in our balance as a museum. We had this question: if we were building a museum about death, or about a world that learned something about its capability to help and be generous and kind? We are mindful of how the memorial and community sensibility shapes what we can do here. It is so raw, it is so soon, so solemn, so sacred, and those have been very important contingencies that are a part of our decision making. This interview has been edited and condensed.
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‘Fallapalooza’ draws students outside Series explores use of long takes in eight films B y haley gordon
Lured by music, free T-shirts and gorgeous weather, students congregated on Gold Coast lawn for the Programming Board’s “Fallapalooza” concert on Friday evening. Student band The Euphemisms opened with a set influenced by funk, reggae and alternative rock, while professional acts Grizfolk, Oh Honey and RDGLDGRN played a mix of alternative rock and indie pop. Students milled around the lawn during the event, talking and taking part in various activities like the traditional strongman strength test game and golf-themed dart game, run by Programming Board volunteers. Some students congregated in front of the stage, where an overhang provided refuge from the sun, though other attendees tanned in front of the Fahey-McLane residential cluster. The Euphemisms played covers of Average White Band’s “Pick Up the Pieces,” The Strokes’s “Someday” and Viceroy’s “Chase Us Around.” The group also performed a mash-up of Kool and The Gang’s “Get Down on It” and Nelly’s “Ride Wit Me,” as well as Of Monsters and Men’s “Little Talks” and Avicii’s “Wake Me Up.” The group drew a seated audience on the lawn and provided a soundtrack to those battling through a “Boulderdash” inflatable obstacle
course and jumping on a bungee trampoline. Following opener The Euphemisms was Grizfolk, a five-man group about to embark on a national tour with Bastille. The group played Americana folk music inflected with influences from electro-pop, including covers of songs like David Bowie’s “Suffragette City” as well as original singles like “The Ripple.” After Grizfolk, Oh Honey took the stage. The indie pop duo charmed as the sun set on Gold Coast, bringing several audience members to their feet. The group’s sweet lyrics and honest sound appealed to many at the show, especially “Be Okay,” a crowd favorite already familiar to some after being featured on “Glee” in March. Oh Honey toured with The Fray this summer and will begin a national tour with American Authors in October. MisterWives was slated to perform next but canceled when Mandy Lee, the group’s lead singer, fell ill. Many students were disappointed to hear the news, as the group was one of the better-known acts in the planned lineup, having played on campus in the spring. Staff working the event initially set up for MisterWives to perform but switched the set-up to accommodate RDGLDGRN, the final act. The crowd thinned during this delay.
MisterWives had just completed a two-month tour with American Authors and The Royal Concept, leaving Lee a bit ragged, Leif Harder, Programming Board concert director, said. The group may schedule a make-up concert on campus later in the school year, he said. RDGLDGRN, which derives its name from band members’ stage names — guitarist Red, vocalist and bass player Gold and singer and guitarist Green — played a set influenced by indie music and go-go, a subgenre of funk that originated in the band’s hometown of Washington, D.C. The spectators interacted the most with this act, as band members pumped up the audience with shoutouts throughout the set and invited students to dance and sing along. Many onlookers did not need encouragement and danced from the beginning of the set. Original single “I Love Lamp” included a rousing chorus with student help, and at one point, Green invited students onstage to dance. RDGLDGRN’s originals like “Doing the Most” and “Million Fans” were particular standouts in the set. The group explored Hanover before the show, interacting with students and making a key purchase at the Dartmouth Co-op. Green sported SEE CONCERT PAGE 11
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The Euphemisms opened “Fallapalooza” with a set that included covers of professional bands and original mash-ups.
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Though the apartment overlooks the Manhattan skyline, the cocktail party feels airless. The guests wonder aloud, just where is David Kentley? Filmed in real time with the illusion of a single take, Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rope” (1948) continues to enthrall viewers with its murder-mystery. The film is one of eight included in the Dartmouth Film Society’s “The Long Take” series this term, which celebrates the difficult cinematic technique of filming scenes — or whole movies — without cutting. On average, feature films include about 600 shots. Long takes require meticulous planning and rehearsal to create a flawless scene without cuts, DFS member Alex Stockton ’15 said. “The camera has to know what it’s going to be looking at, the actors need to know exactly what their marks are, the extras have to be in place and all of the equipment needs to be in positions where it won’t be seen, so typically you rehearse many times until you get it about right, then you try it,” Stockton said. “Things always go wrong, so you do it again and again and again until the film gods shine down on the set and it comes together.” Though challenging to capture, long takes are worth the trouble when executed correctly. Varun Bhuchar ’15, a Hopkins Center film intern and DFS member, said that the technique forces audiences to pay attention to details that they might not otherwise notice. “The filmmaker is forcing the audience to see specific aspects of a scene that change the way the film is viewed,” he said. Directors also use the technique to show off their technical prowess behind the camera, Bhuchar said. Long takes have featured prominently in recent award-winning films, including “Gravity” (2013) and “12 Years a Slave” (2013). Director Alfonso Cuarón used the technique liberally throughout “Gravity,” such as in the film’s 17-minute introduction, and
director Steve McQueen used the technique to capture the full graphic horror of Patsey’s whipping and Solomon Northup’s nearhanging in “12 Years a Slave.” Scenes filmed using the long take technique are particularly striking due to the profound difference in length from that of normal shots, DFS member Emory Orr ’16 said. “The average shot length in Hollywood today is around three seconds, which has gradually decreased over the decades from the past average of nine seconds,” Orr said. “Because of this fact, films with long takes distinguish themselves from most contemporary films.” “The Long Take” is the first Dartmouth Film Society series dedicated to a specific filmmaking technique. The group chose the theme from five potential topics spring term. Dartmouth Film Society director Johanna Evans ’10 said the theme, while specific, allowed the group to profile eight different films. About two years ago, Dartmouth Film Society reduced its film series from 20 films to eight or nine, changing the nature of the themes that the group adopted, she said. “We found that a 20-film series always ended up being a little general, and that we had to stretch it in order to fit in the new releases that we wanted to play,” Evans said. “We tightened up the series so we could look at more specific topics, such as the long take.” Evans said that the series allows students to try out films that they may not otherwise know. Upcoming films in the series include French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard’s “Weekend” (1967) on Oct. 5 as well as contemporary American director Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood” (2014) on Oct. 19. The films are shown on Sunday afternoons at 4 p.m. in the Loew Auditorium. The series will run through Nov. 16. Bhuchar is a former member of The Dartmouth staff.